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1836 Treaty Ceded Territory

In the 1836 Treaty, the Anishinaabeg ceded over 13.8 million acres (21,621 square miles) of land in what is now northern Michigan. Roughly speaking, the 1836 ceded territory boundaries are the Eastern Upper Peninsula up to the Escanaba River and two-thirds of the northern lower peninsula down to Thunder Bay River on the east side and the Grand River on the west side with a boundary line drawn between the two rivers, as the map details: